Tuesday November 8, 2022 is Election Day in the United States of America. In addition to Congressional "midterms" at the federal level, many state governors and other more local offices are up for grabs. Given how things shook out over Election Day 2020, things could get a little crazy.
...or, perhaps, not! But here's the Megathread for if they do. Talk about your local concerns, your national predictions, your suspicions re: election fraud and interference, how you plan to vote, anything election related is welcome here. Culture War thread rules apply, with the addition of Small-Scale Questions and election-related "Bare Links" allowed in this thread only (unfortunately, there will not be a subthread repository due to current technical limitations).
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If nothing else, the alacrity of the count in Florida should call other states methodology into question. Even granting partisanship, it seems hard to make a serious argument that taking a long time to count votes is good, actually.
That's a lost cause in some places, though. All the election deniers in 2020 pointed to Florida and wondered why Pennsylvania couldn't have their counts done as fast. The state responded that Florida allows precanvassing and Democrats tried to get a precanvassing bill passed but Republicans in the state legislature were more interested in trying to get the mail-in vote law that they unanimously supported in 2019 repealed than in trying to make Pennsylvania's laws more in line with Florida's. This is pretty much a lost cause now with Shapiro winning the election, and with Democrats making gains in the state legislature there may be some movement on a precanvassing law in the future.
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